• latenightnoir@lemmy.world
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    Grrrreat… Can anyone please suggest an alternative? I’ve switched to Proton trying to de-Google…

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    Guy who sells VPNs really supportive of political party that blocks parts of the internet regionally

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    The initial post could just be chalked up to naivety if we’re feeling charitable, but using the official proton accounts for this stuff is an extremely bad move. Then half-assedly retracting it without acknowledging he posted it, doubling down, and making every classic PR mistake. Aside from potential capitulation to a regime that clearly values power more than human rights, there’s significant risk from a person with such bad judgement having apparently no safeguards or second opinions when he’s posting. What other decisions is he unilaterally making for proton that aren’t publicly known?

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      He’s another mini Elon wannabe, obviously. They’re coming out of the woodwork lately.

      I hope people are taking notes so these scum don’t get to skate later when it falls down around their ears.

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      3 hours ago

      I did the same! No more proton unlimited! It is better to use products from multiple companies instead of one.

      • Let's Go 2 the Mall!@lemmy.world
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        for mail, posteo. For drive, calendar, contacts, passwords, I’m working on setting up nextcloud but it’s not ready yet. I still have a few months before I’m downgraded. for VPN, I’m still looking for alternatives.

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            I’ve been using Tuta since 2016, on paid plan since 2019.

            Outside a single longer outage early on I had nothing but good experience with their service. Granted, I only care about email and calendar (the only two products they have at the moment) but both work without any issues.

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        Also curious. I left Mullvad because they stopped supporting port forwarding. Proton seemed like the best second option privacy/feature/price wise at the time. IVPN was touted highly around that time, but it appears they have also phased out port forwarding

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            I have also come across Windscribe, which seems reasonably well respected. Sadly, they make you pay extra for a static IP and port forwarding.

            AirVPN has a lot of people complaining about connection speed.

            Options are drying up 😢

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    The most interesting part of this take is that JD Vance is very much in the big tech friends circle with Thiel and Musk. But I’m sure they can run some antitrust against their enemies at Google or whatever

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    The post was deleted and they are in cleanup mode. Best thing we can do is post this everywhere and demand a public apology and the firing of Andy Yen.

    Otherwise end your subscriptions!

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    It seems obvious to me now.

    Many US states are now requiring age verification for adult sites. VPN companies will benefit if that requirement expands. The Republican party’s pearl-clutching politics are what can make that happen.

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        There’s a lot of benefits that come with gay sex being something you get socially ostracized or legally prosecuted for.

        You get to have all the gay sex you want with the reassuring knowledge that it will be kept completely secret by your partners.

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    Believing in any way that Republicans are helping out the little guy or against big business is so ridiculous I have to believe this is willful ignorance to cover up the fact that a lot more people will need VPNs with all the porn bans and other privacy nightmares the right will pass the next few years.

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    Wait until Big Tech does something and then Proton will cry about it. They’ll be in for a shocking surprise that Big Tech does what Big Tech did because Trump and Republicunts allowed it to happen.

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    Anyone notice Trump clearly didn’t write that, because it’s clearly written? Remember how bugfuck he was getting over the last year and how we rarely see that anymore?

    Just how bugfuck is he now and who’s controlling him?

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    Thank you for using a less charged title in the cross-post. It’s concerning stuff coming from the Proton CEO and Andy Yen using the official account to amplify it. However, I disagreed with it being characterized as “Full MAGA”.